No! No 72?? He was in the prime of his life!

I don't feel like I have a great handle on what is and isn't written by AI, but boy There sure is some unpleasant writing out there now

I truly cannot keep up with @edzitron.com's output, and he's in it so hard against what he rails against that I find it hard to stan him, but just look at his verbal command of his fact set in this interview. Unreal

It's been a hot minute since I've spit some Compose, and boy howdy It's still so good, y'all. We truly have the juice here

Okay this post has got me now with this bit

Maybe the most harmful thing about LLMs for a learning community is that you won't learn about anything unrelated to what you asked for.

Okay there is quite a bit more to wasm than I had maybe presupposed

I was laid off on February 28th. Today is *formally* my last day, though — I've technically been on the payroll since then. Anyway, I was reflecting today and dug this up. And you know what? What's done is done forever. Cash App will always be the best

More musings after some people got upset about the word clanker. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/cl...

New blog post: Fast is better than slow → dubroy.com/blog/fast-is...

This is absolutely true. When you get right down to it, the big tech companies all believe that there are no new worlds left to conquer. It's just a matter of administering their hard won territory as cheaply as possible.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

+1 I'd go even further and say I don't even care if it's different, as long as it's you and you put some effort into expressing yourself. Different is overrated; personal is underrated.

Nodding my head so hard at this paper that finds evidence that junior programming jobs were nuked by WFH, not AI. Anyone who has tried to support a WFH junior engineer has seen that it just does not work. At all. It sucks for everyone, but most for the juniors. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Awesome new tool release from @saket.me saket.me/touch-robot/

Seems like a good time to use qualified but discarded tech workers to build nimble new tech companies with supportive organizational cultures, and some structural signalling (B-corp? Worker co-op?) that they won't turn evil

the contrast here is pretty stark

In case you missed it... #jj-vcs

The new Google LLM forward interface has strong "You can't fire me, I quit" energy

Android is now Compose-first: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... It was years in the making, and I'm happy to see it's finally here!

Developers have had impressively strong communities for a couple decades now, and we've accumulated a lot of power. Big corporations would prefer labor not have power, so what's a good way to take out one of the most powerful labor forces? Turn them back to cogs in the machine without community

this post is framed slightly more adversarial that I'd prefer, but is one of the best posts about VCS stuff I've read in a while. in particular, describing the failings of the A -> B -> C vs A -> B -> C' sorts of graphs? i've been reading these diagrams since 2010, and mind? blown. very insightful.

Maybe not a good sign for the health of big tech. Strap in, everyone, we're in for some chop

My experience with writing is that, the more I put into something, the less it hits. Don't know why! But that is how it do.

I'm not sure if you're open to this, but... have you heard the bad news about git? www.billjings.com/posts/title/...

You can tell that blog post is really on the way now that I've completely broken my blog

@rjrjr.com haven't looked at the details of Jane Kim's plan, but my mind is open bc: * My brother in law's home had a fire insurance event a few years ago. Watching how that played out (or not paid out, as the stands) was radicalizing * Insurance of all kinds is a huge wealth concentration vehicle

I've always felt reassured analyzing code because, no matter how gnarly, I knew that at its heart that a human wrote it for some reason. You could figure out its intention. That assumption has been blasted away in the past few years, and I worry what we've lost due to code written without meaning.

Doing another editing pass on this VCS post so that I don't have to deal with publishing it

I thought I was doing pretty well, but then a former colleague reached out with a funsy from cash-android's source and it just ruined my day.

I wrote up some things about my experience playing with jj mostly a braindump, probably wrong in places, but perhaps useful ellie.wtf/notes/jj-get...

I think we’re ready for every company to replace their peer review system with one question. “Does this person produce AI slop? • Never • Rarely (or Almost Never) • Sometimes (or Occasionally) • Often (or Frequently) • Always (or All the fucking time)”

Current status

If that's how CEOs view people managers, then: 1. CEOs don't think as deeply about organizations as I had assumed 2. They're going to get rid of a whole lot of intelligence, adaptability, and domain knowledge

I swear I am still working on that damned JJ post

Related, something I shared recently internally. I don't mind PM using Claude write code.. to generate a throw away prototype that's nicely integrated. But not as a mergeable PR.

You can see in this rationale a way that you can defensibly say, "I'm comfortable using an LLM to write my own bash scripts, but not to integrate with my colleague's new infra."

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

An update on our availability: ersc.io/blog/ersc-av...

The prospect I can't bear isn't really AI generated code, or having my job be automated. It's ceasing to be part of an intellectual community.

Bring back the old school pull requests. https://dankim.com/learning-from-old-school-pull-requests/

I long for brevity. dankim.com/brief-is-bet...

One day it's all "Keep things as simple as possible!" A few years later, and you're doing this kind of stuff Legacy code! It's fun, actually

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Metro reaches 1.0! It's the proudest work of my career and I strongly feel this is how dependency injection in Kotlin should be. Thank you to everyone that's contributed and helped this project get to where it's at. Metro wouldn't be where it is without you. www.zacsweers.dev/metro-is-sta...

I've been working on a piece where I drill into why git is troublesome and Succinctly unpacking the issues with HEAD + staging + working copy is difficult

Yes, this labeler is really handy: @stechlab-labels.bsky.social

If the eggs are scrambled, you can't unscramble them If the eggs are scrambled.... you can't unscramble them

Every time I find myself writing about how dispatchers work, or why JJ is worthwhile, a doubt intrudes: Does this even matter anymore?

Writing about jj and git this morning and lo and behold, what should pop up: lwn.net/Articles/105... Even the folks maintaining git are seeing the light on jj